Two men get prison for beating teenage drug dealer in Cobb

A Cobb County judge sentenced two men to prison time Thursday for beating a 17-year-old drug dealer.

Lamar Antoine Hendrix, of Smyrna, is set to spend 15 years in prison, and Van Alexander Pride, from Indiana, was sentenced to five years in prison, according to a Cobb district attorney’s office news release.

Hendrix is 21 years old and Pride is 19.

The pair had agreed to buy a half ounce of marijuana from the 17-year-old on Sept. 12, 2016, according to a police warrant. This happened in the 1800 block of Roswell Road.